A Deadly Parallel

From the ninth ar report of Han. Chas. F. Pec.k, Democratie Commissinner of the Kew Vork State Bureau of Labor Staiisties. " Out of sixty-eight udustries 75 per cent. of them show au increased average yearly earnins in the year of 1891, while the total average increase of yearly earnings of 285,)ix) employés was 523.11; the average in;reaae of yearly earn!ugs of the employés in the fifty-one trades showing an increase was $43 96 in 1891 as compared with 1890. The net increase in wages for 1891 over 1891) is $8,377,925. The increase in product during the same iieriod is $31.315,130. Governor Campbell has said that not a single workingman'a wages has been ruised as a result of the McKinley act. My report shows tbat there were just 286,000 men whose salaries were I raised 09 the result of t!n ïaw. I am free to admit that my report is not inhaimony with the platform adopted at Chicago in so far as it relates to the subject of the tariff. The report, however.states the condition of affairs as I have found them " H Trom the D mocratic Platform adopted by the National Conventien nt Chicago, June . 82, 1892i Sec. 3. Wedenounce the Republicau policy of protectioa as a fraud on the labor of 'the sreat majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principie of the democratie party that the federal government has uo constitutional power to impose aud collect tariff dutio except for the purpose of revenue only. We denounce the McKiuley Tarirï Law enacted by the Fiftyfirst Congress as the culminating atrodty o ri(.s Icginlation, ai"l ■- prom ise íts re peti I as one of the beñeticent results that will follow the action of the people in intrusting power to the democratie party, sincethe McKinley tariff went into operation there have been ten reductioJis of the u-ages of labonng w to ont increase. We deny that there has been a'ny increase of prosperity to the country smee that tariff weut into operation. t The pi-ohibitionists are doughty and imterrificü folks. They have this year adopted a platform that has a great deal to say about raonetary questious, the tariff, immigration, railroads and many orttaer thinge, lut next to nothinff about the prohibition issue. Our prohibition iriends are now the declared ememies of a protective tariff, and are committed to the direct issue of treasury notes for money. We last week, gave Gen. Bidwell's portrait, to-dny we Tjrinpr that of their vice-p resident al nominee, Kev. J. B. Cranfill, of Texas; Very little is bmown of this gentleman except that he is oaie of the orators of the southern temperanoe movement.